Thursday, September 7, 2017

DACHAU-KZ - SATELLITE CAMPS - PART 20 Alphabetical Order M -N

MUNICH - SENDLING. ARCHITECT BÜCKLERS
In 1941 the Munich architect Karl Bücklers received from the
Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Reich Airways Ministry) a project to
plan and supervise the construction of three Armaments factories,
namely: Linhof, Widmeier and Grunow at Munich -Sendling. The
facilities were built next to each other east of the railway line
Munich-Tergernsee. According to Mr. Bückllers, the construction
measures undertaken were initially without problems. It was only
during the initial period of the third factory building for the
company Grunow that the construction on on this site came to a halt
due to a lack of labor. For this reason, the
Reichsluftfahrtministerium provided a working detachment of 40
detainees from KZ-Dachau. The first prisoners, mainly craftsmen,
came to Munich-Sendling on the 16th March 1942. Within this
sub-camp, which was later established, were detainees under
Schutzhaft (Protective Custody) mainly Polish, Austrian and German
prisoners. In the meantime, they had to erect an accommodation
barrack on the open field of the construction site. In this wooden
barrack, one part was cut off for the guards and the camp commander.
The prisoners slept on two-tier wooden bedsteads. Around the
rectangular camp area was a barbed-wire fence and two watchtowers
erected.

Sendling - Aerial view of the Market Hall area (view to the east

With this commando, the prisoner Franz
Winzenz had come to Munich-Sendling as Kapo. He was replaced by
Hermann Pfeifer on 31 July 1943. The guard team consisted of
eleven German SS members and a camp commander, neither were known
by name. The commander even slapped (ohrfeigte) the detainees on
the smallest offenses like smoking while working or for alledged
low labor performance. He also punished them with Sunday work or
food deprivation. In the case of serious offenses, the prisoners
were brought back to the Stammlager (Main Camp) Dachau, as in the
case of a Bavarian prisoner who had attempted to make secret
contact with his family. A survivor who reported that a Pole had
been hanged because of sabotage. (Ref .: (Statement Georg P. 28
I. 1975, in Prosecutor's Office Munich I 420u Js 20I656 / 76.)

Prisoners were led by SS members to the building site about 100
meters away. In addition to KZ- prisoners, there were prisoners of
war from France and Russia, who were, however, guarded by members of
the Wehrmacht, and also worked there. Any contact among these
prisoners was strictly forbidden.
The food consisted of the usually watery soup, which was prepared in
a nearby restaurant kitchen.
At least two detainees were trying to flee from the sub-camp. A
German prisoner was apprehended again after two months, returned to
the sub-camp and then transferred to the Bunker-arrest in Dachau.
His remaining whereabouts is unknown. On the other hand, a prisoner
from Czechoslovakia succeeded in escaping.
During his interrogation, Karl Bueckler, the architect, stated that
he had never entered the camp himself, and that he had only held
contact with the prisoners on the construction site. According to a
former prisoner, Karl Bücklers is said to have treated the prisoners
well.
On 1 December 1942, the sub-camp Sendling was disbanded, and the
prisoners returned to the main camp in Dachau.
The company buildings are still preserved and are located now to the
west of today's Koppstrasse. The companies Widmeier and Linhof are
still to be found at this address, while Grunow was taken over at
Koppelstrasse 6 by the Siemens conglomerate.
The prosecutor's office, Munich I, determined the proceedings in the
sub-camp Sendling in the years 1973 to 1976, then the investigations
were stopped.

Author German Text: Sabine Schalm

NEUBURG
The sub-camp Neuburg consisted of a working camp at the Fliegerhorst
(Small Aerodrome) Neuburg / Donau. The Neuburger Fliegerhorst had
been completed in October 1936, it had become initially a pilot
training school, thus since 1942 trainees came from different Units
and various Fighter-Pilot companies. In the years 1942 and 1943 the
Fliegerhorst was expanded and in October 1944 an Endmontagestäte
(final assembly site) for the jet aircraft Me 262 of the company
Messerschmidt was set up in a nearby forest. Since February 1845 the
airfield experienced several heavy bombings.
According to the IT'S directory, the Neuburg sub-camp is documented
in the KZ-files for the period from 1 February 1945 to March 1945.
One to two prisoners were supposed to have been involved. Name and
transport lists are not known. In a "proof of claim" of the main
camp of Dachau for work assignments to the Fliegerhorst
Headquarters, which is available for the period February 1945, only
a few working days from prisoners are shown. From this, and from
verbal statements, it can be concluded that the sub-camp Neuburg did
not exist for more than several days, a maximum of a few weeks
perhaps, and consisted of only a few inmates. These were presumably
placed in the prison of war camp, which had been annexed to the
Luftwaffe nearby, and were housed and fed there.

Neuburg Fliegerhorst as it is now

The posting of a Dachau work commando to Neuburg was probably the
result of air raids on the airfield. The presumption that the
detainees were being used after the bombing is trivial in view of
the small number of prisoners. It is assumed that the prisoners were
used to remove un-exploded bombs and time-delayed incendiary
devices , as was the case at the nearby city of Ingolstadt, which
had been heavily bombed since the end of January 1945. About the
closure of the Neuburg sub-camp there are no written sources. An
oral statement indicated that the airfield was closed as such due to
constant heavy bombardment. The KZ-prisoners would then have had the
opportunity to escape and hide until the end of the war in nearby
Neuburg, in cellars of destroyed dwellings. On April 26, 1945,
American soldiers entered the city.
Investigations by the Central Office of the Landesjustizverwaltung
in Ludwigsburg at the beginning of the nineteen-seventies led to no
further investigation and was stopped. On the airfield today the
Jagdgeschwader 74 is stationed.

Autjor German Text: Max Direktor

MUNICH - SCHWANTHALERHÖHE ,BERGMANNSSCHULE
In the School for Miners at Munich-Schwanthalerhöhe ten prisoners
from the KZ-Dachau were accommodated in a classroom between December
1944 and April 1945. The prisoners would be trained as craftsmen who
came to the help after bomb attacks in Munich to secure buildings or
to carry out repairs.

Bergmann-Schule

A former prisoner remembers that he was with two to three Poles, four
Czechs. two Yugoslavs, and three Germans in the working commando at
the Bergmannstrasse. At nights they were locked up in a classroom
and guarded by an SS-member. The leading commander was brutal in
handling and dealing with prisoners, he beat them, and kicked them
in their backsides (Fusstritte). He did not make use of his pistol,
however. There was no guard team who accompanied the prisoners to or
from their work assignments.
In June 1944 the miners' school was almost completely destroyed by a
fire bomb. In December 1944, when the prisoners from Dachau moved into
the Bergmannstrasse, there were no more students prent. In the school
building there was a soup kitchen and a shower. Whether these facilities
were also available to the detainee commando, was never clarified.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bergmannschule in 1991, a
small volume on the school history was published, the photos of the
building before and after the destruction are included. The use of some
space as a sub-camp for prisoners from the KZ-Dachau remained unedited
in this publicarion.

In 1973, the Central Office of the Landesjustizverwaltungen in
Ludwigsburg inquired about the sub-camp Bergmannschule. The procedure
was discontinued in 1976, since any killing operations were not
detectable.

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It is well known that Dachau is located just North of Munich, Germany. I lived in the old SS-Hospital Haus.No 52B for 10 years. I did publish my German ID but had to delete certain entries due to Identity Theft. I am now living in New Zealand since 1956 my country of adoption, still married at the age of 85 with three great grand children,have three sons and a number of relations in America, Australia, Switzerland and Germany. Otherwise of reasonable heath, although slow in my movements. My hobbies: Travelling to other countries meeting and trying to understand other cultures, supporting a school of street kids in India for the last 25 years.